Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-06-03
FACT AND FANCY.

dish as mat nave louuu iaNOi MINUS 'He 'P'N-
ureans Of Albany, n. \.
A winery at Marysville, Cal, has made pre-
parations To consume two thousand tons oil
grapes during the coming season.
One OF the Albany, y. Y, storekeepers IL
Young girl 10 years old. She manages the
store without assistance and pursucs grow
ING business.
The professor OF physical education In the
University OF PENNSYLVANIA, aided by the
faculty, are stopping the smoking OF cigarettes
on the college grounds
The Y. NJ c. A., at Cornell university 10
making an effort 10 form religious library
for the use OF its members. The association
has three hundred members.
Not one In twelve New York city lads who
presented themselves to undergo the physical
examination as preliminary To competition Tor
admission TO a cadetship at the Naval acade-
my passed.
Steam which collected around one hundred
tin driving cans In dyeing printing, ana
bleaching establishment At BronXdaie, \. l.,
caused All explosion which shook the country
| for three miles.
In San Francisco, Cal, the other day,
school teacher compelled her scholars to strip
TO skin to find who had stolen little glris
dress pin The next day the lost article was
| found in the school-yard.
A great school for brewers is about TO be es-
tablished in the old university town OF Donal'
| France Ii 10 calculated that in this way
Donal will supply France with brewers whose
beer will drive the German beverage complete
| " out OF the field.
- Rail- Y.
which at the time OF its erection was the
largest hosiery ia the United States has been
sold 20 New York library 1t has numbered
among its guests such men as Webster, Clay,
Douglas, and Calhoun.
A little Indian boy whose problem In srith-
metic To work out was "Divide loo by 3
worked away very patiently until the slate wss
nearly covered With 9s and over, then, look
lug up 10 his teacher, in tones OF great pcrpleI'
itv. said Miss Blank, can not stop
In Rondout " Y, there is srestaurant thai
displays printed cards which conveys TO Gus
toners Information Of what may be obtained
there one Of the signs reads AS follows:
Lamb chopses;' another, "oyster stewes; = an
other, ''all kindses OF pises;' another, "o'ster
fryses" etc man walked into the pl'ce,
and. after looking at the signs, blandIy ASKED
the clerk for "peceses OF pieses
Ono of the curious feature. Of Hover garden
ing in August. Ne. on the 18th Of April VA.
a bed OF crocuses dug out from under tho
snow At a deDth Of more than foot and a half.
The erocuses were found 10 have made
growth of some three inches up into the snow.
And there IL i.-a circular bed full OF crocus-
es. all ready to bloom, with a wall OF snow Tor
fae
The san Francisco Bal-tn fears that in The
distant future the name san francisco Will be
worn down 10 the barbarous combination
"Frisco." eve hay. inherited from Spain"
il saws "sonorou, names 70 which W. should
adhere or substitute their meanings In our
own tongue. The roll Of the counties OF
California. WHEN called oil, is music in itsen
marred alone by one or two harshcT aud NOR;
sibu.ut tones which We have Introduced into
it,
4 The city marshal Of Portsmouth, y. IL,
started for the train one d.v recently aud had
n run for IT, Half hundred persons seeing
tn. officer run supposed he was after Grimm
NIL and started in 10 help him. aud by the
tim, the persyirIng marshal had reached inc
denot two or three hundred men and ooyi
w.re close at his heels There were q grea
many persons in that crowd who felt lik" nav
inc Themselves kicked when tho marshal told
, them what he was running for.
I In lecture before New York medical SO
cie,v Or. Georg. T. Jackson, OF Boston, said
one cause Of badness was great lnteilec'uaii
~. and in an illustration said that - per cent
of the men TO be seen NJ the operas ana w
churches IN Boston are bald, "hiIe no
e more than twenty five per cent OF thoS
who visit the cheap mlseu ms are 'hu
Aft c:ed Another cause, he thought Is SUI
4 hats which compress tho temporal arterle
! and render the circulation Of the blood slug
! gish.
- Franklin d. Smith. OF Portland, Oregon,
> negro who served a. soldier during the war
, has been blackb.llet by the Grand Army me
q out there, aud. in a letter OF remonstranc'
4 SAWS. II fought side by side with white me
then. sat side by siio with them around gu
camp.fres then, and color WAS not thought o.
" our country was our thought. was WINK
L enough then TO offer my life for the salVsto
81 ms country, aud am not msn enough
belong to Garfield post No g. Grand Army
K the Republici'
ut Som. time ago q resident OF AmcsDur
= Conn. sent 70 a friend in Australia typic
A Yankee Yacht, which has won the honor
being the Msy1ower OF southern waters.
- an OCEAN race OF ninety miles in March Il
u sloop vanquished all the Britishers aud We
St the prize OF a3D, none OF her four rivals ber
TO able to flush the course in the face OF {
~ gale aud heavy sea which prevailed. ii
:, Sydney newspapers are full OF praises of q
I" speed aud stanchnes. Of the Yankee boat an
'c- the skill Of her owner.
A society man In Buffalo, n. Y, tells hi
near he came being pulled recently Tor
n, pick-pocket: Il was walking along abscl
il mind.dly," he says, when happened 10 n
L tice the car that had been waiting for h
passed me. threw up mv.hsnd suddenly
w motion to the conductor TO stop and got I
m fingers tangled in the wstch-chan Of a e
I'M tlemAn who came up. suppose he though
re- was trying to rob him, for he made grab
me aud ran after me half the way To the G.
: Then he went back but suppose he told !
Us police what q narrow escape he bad. "